I stood barefoot on the warm grass under the midday sun, facing east in the Sun Angel Temple. Relaxed, open, and trusting, I remained receptive, not anticipating anything. My spiritual teacher, aka the Wizard, stood before me with a bottle of spirits in his hand, and I knew enough to close my eyes before he purified me. Then he “worked” on my third eye with his hands. (Honestly, I have no idea what he did!) At first I just felt…
One thing we help our apprentices with is becoming an authentic human being with the knowledge of divine spark/dark energy internally, which we help them awaken. This dark energy may be referred to as Kundalini. Within every human lies a divine/cosmic dark energy (dark, meaning unseen) called Kundalini. Kundalini is Shakti, whom the sages of India worship as mother of the universe. She is the active aspect of the Absolute. Keep in mind, I awakened my feminine energy in 1988…
The following is excerpted from my latest book Return of Quetzalcóatl – The Morning Star Yoda: “My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” Dark Matter’s dark/subtle energy makes up 96% of the known universe while only 4% of universal mass-energy is occupied by atomic matter and electromagnetic energy. I would go one step further and state…
Over the next three days our group of initiates traveled through cloud forests and traversed the “pass of the eternal woman,” Warmihuanusca, at 13,800 feet (4,206 meters). After having crossed the mountainous pass, we soon arrived at one of our early destinations, the ruins of Runkurakay and the beginning of the Inka Royal Path. The sun legends say that only the enlightened ones, the children of light, are able to pass this point and continue on to Machu Picchu. It…
Shaman – a word that births a prism of images and connotations. Of course, a shaman would be a practitioner of shamanism, which Mircea Eliade defined as a “technique of religious ecstasy.” This is a definition that is problematic just as the terms shaman and shamanism are wrought with a magnitude of problems when applied cross-culturally. Let’s for the time-being refer to a shaman as a “wise person.” This reference cuts across all cultures. All cultures have been known to…
Excerpted The Fifth Sun, Chapter 16 – Shapeshifting: After taking a large swallow of his beer, Jimmyl began by saying, “The main reason I stopped last night concerned Shri and her extraordinary ability, condition is a better word. One unbeknownst to her or me. What I am now going to tell you, no one else knows. You two will be the first…” Jimmyl paused while the two stared at him with faces that showed bewilderment. “Shri was a nahualli, a…
In our apprenticeship with the late Mom and Vince Stogan, Coast Salish Musqueam shamans, Vince told me to be aware that I might have a vision revealing how to paint my face during ceremonies and healings. Vince was correct. The following is most important in understanding awakening the divine fire within our hearts, thus achieving a consciousness of Radical Nonduality … the ability to have a vision, to access the Otherworld while awake during the day while not under the…
All of our Otherworldly experiences are recorded in our memoirs: Tequila and Chocolate: I am ever amazed at the profound knowledge left to us by the Mesoamericans and other ancient indigenous cultures. According to the Maya, and we were on the land of the Maya, each person has one of twenty different day-signs: “A person’s birth date, falling on one of twenty days, each having a specific name (sometimes that of an animal) and characteristics, is believed to influence one’s…
One reliable source notes the cardinal-point nature of Quetzalcoatl as the wind, supporting once more the cosmic legitimacy for the layout of many Mesoamerican ceremonial centers. That which was known as the wind was addressed as Quetzalcoatl. From four directions it traveled.[i] Belief in the spiritual principle was the very basis of Quetzalcóatl’s religion by clearly showing that humans are the incarnation of a celestial particle (divine spark).[ii] To visualize this, Quetzalcóatl’s original message was symbolized by the hieroglyph “burning…
Malinalco is an ancient land, this beautiful valley in the state of Mexico full of vegetation at the foot of a mountain range is known to have been settled in the 12th century by different pre-Hispanic indigenous groups. But it is most famous for its Aztec warrior sanctuary built in the 16th century for the Eagle and Jaguar warriors. Called the “Cerro de los Idolos” this archeological site is considered one of the most important ceremonial sites for the Aztec…